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journalize

American  
[jur-nl-ahyz] / ˈdʒɜr nlˌaɪz /
especially British, journalise

verb (used with object)

journalized, journalizing
  1. to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.

  2. to enter or record in a journal.

  3. (in double-entry bookkeeping) to enter in a journal, preparatory to posting to the ledger.


verb (used without object)

journalized, journalizing
  1. to keep or make entries in a journal.

journalize British  
/ ˈdʒɜːnəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. to record (daily events) in a journal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of journalize

First recorded in 1760–70; journal + -ize


Example Sentences

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Lovecraft’s language “fails” only insofar as the narrators fail to get into words, to journalize, some experience that simply cannot be fully available to the meager human senses and mind.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013

I feel singularly indolent, and indisposed to journalize this evening.

From The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

I cannot journalize, cannot arrange my ideas into order.

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Little by little he learned to invoice and journalize and "post in the ledger" and all the rest of the detail of bookkeeping.

From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The cloud scenery gives such variety to a hilly landscape that it would be worth while to journalize its aspect from hour to hour.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will be noticed that in this fragment the scene is at first laid in New England, whereas the journalized sketch opened the drama in England.

From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

He had no information more than he had given, but he bravely journalized, "Mr. Glover and everybody, ma'am."

From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

Henry the Morgue had started his journalizing in a small way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, too, my profession occupies nearly the whole of my time; I have rehearsals every day, and act four times a week; my journalizing takes up a good deal of my leisure.

From Records of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble

Oh," she cried, "what a little beast I am, to make you feel like that, when you're journalizing and agonizing day and night, and when it's your own savings that you flung.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

To-day's portion of my journalizing epistle has been very dull and poverty-stricken.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

P. S.—I always told Sir John to steer clear of too much journalizing, but he did nothing but write, night and day, for a week; and as you brew, so you must bake.

From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

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